GREAT BARRINGTON — It’s been a decade-long passion project to elevate the historic contributions of a Black artist by preserving his writing cabin and, eventually, the land around it. Now, it's ...

To the editor: I have long been fascinated by James Weldon Johnson's “The Creation,” begun in 1916 and completed a decade later in Great Barrington and published in "God’s Trombones: Seven Negro ...

A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the ...

Cover title: James Weldon Johnson, author. A biography of the author, civil rights leader, and co-founder of the NAACP who blazed a trail for racial equality and human rights through his songs, poems, ...